[BluegrassCardinal]

My mom told me she was terrified of contracting to polio as a child. During the height of the epidemic, she would have been 6 or 7. If that wasn’t bad enough, that generation of kids moved on to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 62. Pretty scary time to be alive.

[hanamizu]

“...that generation of kids moved on to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 62. Pretty scary time to be alive.”

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Yep, talkin’ ‘bout my generation! There is a movie, “Matinee”, that captures the spirt of the early 60s and the missile crisis perfectly at least from the perspective of my then adolescent mind. Being in the fallout shelter with the cute girl from school.